John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing

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The John Burroughs Association publicly recognizes well-written and illustrated natural history publications. Each year the Burroughs medal is awarded to the author of a distinguished book of natural history, with the presentation made during the Association’s annual meeting on the first Monday of April. From: http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html

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  1. 2011
    The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
    by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  2. 2010
    Sand: The Never-Ending Story
    by Michael Welland

  3. 2009
    Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
    by Franklin Burroughs

  4. 2007
    Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
    by Ellen Meloy

  5. 2005
    Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
    by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  6. 2004

  7. 2003
    Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
    by Carl Safina

  8. 2002
    Wilderness and Razor Wire
    by Ken Lamberton

  9. 2001
    Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year
    by David M. Carroll

  10. 2000

  11. 1999

  12. 1998
    In a Desert Garden: Love and Death among the Insects
    by John Alcock

  13. 1997

  14. 1996

  15. 1995
    Into Africa
    by Craig Packer

  16. 1994
    The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
    by David G. Campbell

  17. 1993
    ?
    Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos
    by Vincent G. Dethier

  18. 1992
    Dolphin Days
    by Norris S Kenneth

  19. 1991
    The Island Within
    by Richard Nelson

  20. 1990
    The Control of Nature
    by John McPhee

  21. 1989
    On Watching Birds
    by Lawrence Kilham

  22. 1988
    Bay Country (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
    by Tom Horton

  23. 1987
    Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land
    by Robert Michael Pyle

  24. 1986
    Gathering the Desert
    by Gary Paul Nabhan

  25. 1985
    Cry of the Kalahari
    by Mark James Owens

  26. 1984
    The Klamath Knot
    by David Rains Wallace

  27. 1983
    ?
    A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm
    by Alexander Skutch

  28. 1982
    ?
    Sand Rivers
    by Peter Matthiessen

  29. 1981
    On the Road With John James Audubon
    by Mary B. Durant

  30. 1979
    Of Wolves and Men
    by Barry Holstun Lopez

  31. 1978
    ?

  32. 1977
    A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation
    by Aldo Leopold

  33. 1974
    ?
    Wilderness Days
    by Sigurd Olson

  34. 1973
    ?
    The Forests and Wetlands of New York City
    by Elizabeth Barlow

  35. 1972
    Lord's Woods
    by Arbib Robert

  36. 1971
    From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog
    by John K. Terres

  37. 1970
    The Year of the Whale
    by Victor B. Scheffer

  38. 1969
    The lovely and the wild
    by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

  39. 1968
    Hill Country Harvest
    by hal borland

  40. 1967
    ?
    The Winter Breach
    by Charlton, Jr. Ogburn

  41. 1966
    ?
    Gulls Way
    by Louis Darling

  42. 1965
    ?
    Roadless Area
    by Paul Brooks

  43. 1964
    The Great Beach
    by John, Hay

  44. 1963
    A Naturalist in Alaska
    by Adolph Murie

  45. 1962
    Iceland summer: Adventures of a bird painter
    by George Miksch Sutton

  46. 1961
    The Firmament of Time
    by Loren Eiseley

  47. 1960
    ?

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